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The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
NEVERTHELESS IN 1887.

Geo. P. Rowell & Co. of New York
will issue on Monday, May I'd, the nine
teenth annual edition of their standard
publication, the American Newspaper
Directory"
The new volume contains an exhaus-
tive list of all class publications SO adj
mirably arranged that any one of the
three thousand papers represented there
can be readily referred to and all i'm
portant acts concerning it, together
with its circulation rating, easily OBJ
tanned.
The Newspaper Directory will be
used principally by publishers, adver-
tisers and advertising agents, but the
vast fund of information it contains
makes it valuable to persons of almost
every trade and profession. AS a gaze
teer alone it is well worth the price
charged, $500, for it describes every
town in which newspaper is issued,
and few people care to know about any
place where one is not.
The number of newspapers published
in the United States, territories lin.
Guiding Alaska) and Canada is put al
Is, 42O, an increase of 5S1 in one year.
The growth of newspapers in some
of the western states would be a mat
ter of wonder, if it were not that this
year is no exception to the rule. In
Kansas the increase is SO and in Ne
braska 81; while the Keystone state
shows a smaller advance of 35 and thu
Buckeye state of 80. Pennsylvania ex
hibits the largest increase in dailies, II
Kansas in weeklies, 81; and New Yorl
in monthlies, AZ. Seven states show ;
decrease, the most prominent instance
being New Hampshire and Virginia
six each. The whole volume show
that great care has been taken to sus
tain it's reputation as the most compre
hensive work of the kind yet publishes
and to ensure accuracy in every detail
Anything less than a complete compen
dunn Of American newspapers and pc
riodicals would surprise those who ar
familiar with the former efforts of thi
firm, who are so well known as the old
est largest and best known of all tn
American advertising agencies.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
BORING FOR or.

Nearly every city in Kansas with any
pretensions to the name is either now
boring or preparing to bore for coal, oil
or gas, excepting Emporia. On Mon
day last Topekastruck fine fourteen
inch veinof coal, and expects to strike a
still heavier vein within a hundred
feet farther down. Fort Scott has
struck coal, oil, gas and water in
abundant supplies, and at present
writing her prospects as manufactur-
ing center are better than any other
place in the state, owing to these rich
finds.
Emporia alone is behind in this mat
ter, and that, too, when she has home
company organized and anxious to begin
work, only awaiting such Rction on the
part of our city council as will insure
to them some chance to get their money
back in case they are fortunate enough
to strike any or all of the products
sought for.
This company, as home company,
is entitled to much consideration, and
should receive any and all encourage
ment that our council can give them
not in conflict with the interests Of oul
city.
Home enterprises of all kinds should
be fostered and assisted as much al
possible, and our citizens who have con
fnence enough in the project to embark
their capital in the venture should moi
be held back and dilly dallied with 81
long that other places may gain sucf
advantages that we would be unable tx
overtake them even should we strike il
as richly as Fort Scott.
This is matter in which every resi-
dent of this city is interested, and
one which should be delayed no Longer
than possible. No narrow minded ideas
should be allowed to stand in the way
of the enterprise, but action should b
taken at once, so the company may i'm
mediately commence boring, and i
there is any oil, gas or water in avail
able quantities let US know it and util
/ iZe it.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
Liked EmpOrfa.

j. P. White, general road agent OF
the Pacific Express company, was in
the city Friday examining into the
condition of the Office here, which he
found in admirable shape, thanks to
the good work of Mr.. G. B. Sears, the
agent. Our reporter interviewed
Mr.. White concerning his travels over
Kansas and learned with pleasure that
he was much taken with the appear
ance of our city. "You have one OF
the neatest, handsomest and most en-
terprising cities in the state. I like
your prospects better than those of any
other town that have been to in the
state. 1 have decided to locate my
place of residence either here or al
Salina and have decided preference
for this place.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
The Hero OF the Griffith Disaster.
To tho Editor NJ tho Taadar
Xenf snddenIrI nnnne.

Mrs. Showers, a colored lady aged
about twenty years, living in the north
east part of town went suddenly insane
Friday from no apparent cause. 1t
was late in the evening she went out
into the yard saying that she had some
thing on her mind. Pretty soon she
commenced yelling and tearing around
in the yard, and it required the COM
bined efforts of her husband and some
of the neighbors to take her into the
house. DIR. Flickinger was called, but
could do nothing and she was taken in
charge by Deputy Sheriff Wooster and
conveyed to the county jail, where she is
now awaiting examination. No rea-
son can be assigned for her insanity.
She is a colored lady of high standing
and her many friends regret this shock
ing affair.
Since writing the above the coroner's
jury have sat on the case and declared
the unfortunate lady insane. She viii
be sent to Ossawatomie i'm few days.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
list OF PATENTS.


The following is the list of patents
granted to citizens of Kansas for the
week ending Tuesday, April %, 1887,
compiled from the official records of the
United States patent Office expressly
for this paper, by w. A. Redmond, so
licitor of patents, No. 6S1 F. street, N.
w., Washington, d. c., of whom in
formation may be had:
o. T. Barber, Burr Oak, harrow.
w. T. Clark, Burlington, marking
tag.
F. D. Cunningham, Burlington, end
gate.
81. L. Dewing. Valley Centre, hay
loader.
]. G. Eckhardt, Edna, cockepe.
III. @. Hood, Wellington, windmill.
G. j. McRae, Kansas City, paper file.
w. Murphy, Omio, corn cultivator.
NJ. PlatZ, Alma, cultivator.
e. f. Schalder, Hepler, hay-stacker,
E. III. and ]. D. Shaw, Clay Centre,
door check.
J. Fl. Williams, Council Grove, hay
press.
c0unlin0
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
WeI.h Baptiss Association.

The association of all Welsh churches
west of the Mississippi met in theiI
church, corner Constitution and Sec
ond Avenue, last Friday. A very
pleasant meeting was held, and is one
of series of meetings to be held here
in the interests of the Welsh Church.
Revs. Richardson, of Missouri, Owens,
of Iowa, and many others have arrived
and insure an interesting time for all.
A business meeting will be held at the
church to-day at 10 a. m, and at 2 p.
m. general society conference takes
place. There viii be preaching at their
church tonight Tomorrow at 10 a.
N. and 2 p. m, services win be held at
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

PRINTERS have nothing whatever tC
fear from theperfection of a type-set.
ting machine. It's history will be that
of other labor-saving machinery-just
rs many people will be employed in
operating the machines as were origin
ally required to do the work by hand
the only effect being that the produc-
tion will be vastly greater. With the
type-setting machine the first to ac-
quire the knack of running it will be
the printers, and publishers will in
crease the amount of reading matter in
proportion to the increased power OF
production of the printers.-Beacon.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

IN New York Mayor Hewitt pro-
poses to arrest and fine all storekeep'
ers and housekeepers who permit the
dirt from their floors to be swept into
the streets. This would appear to be d
vigorous proceeding, but it has the
law on its side, and it helps to keep the
streets clean. Were EmpOria to have
an ordinance of n similar tenor it would
do much, if enforced, to keep greatly
neater what are at present the finest
streets in the state of Kansas. This
is especially applicable to the prevail
ing custom of strewing our streets with
advertising dodgers.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

THE Hnanswerable argument against
negro suffrage-''Do you want your
daughter to marry a nigger?'' is only
equalled by the knock-down arugment
against woman suffrage-"Who will
take care of the baby when the mother
and the hired girl go to vote2'' Per
haps the same one will take care of it
that performs the duty when the mother
is up at the court house paying her
taxes; or while she is running around
town with a market basket, buying meat
and groceries for dinner, and the hired
girl is in the back yard Sitting wood to
cook it with, while the noble husband
is in some uptown saloon telling men
stories, and splitting tobacco juice on
the stoye.--Troy CHER.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

make extremely interesting reading to
the half million readers of that valu-
able publication, especially to those
thinking Of or desiring to locate out
farther west. The article speaks in
glowing yet truthful terms of our beau
tiful state, and paints fine word pic
ture of the many natural and business
advantages of this particular portion
of the most favored and finest member
of the Federal Union. The editors of
the Farm and Preside are gentlemen
of discernment and publish a capital
sheet, which no doubt has many readers
in this section, the number of which
will we hope be augmented much by
this courtesy,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

THE boom inaugurated by THE NEWS
in favor of patronizing home manufac-
ture has already resulted in much good
The home cigar makers report a much
better trade than heretofore. Let the
good work go on. Smoke only home
made cigars and patronize only home
merchantc
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

WEclip from an exchange the fol-
lowing as pointer to Kansas Boards
of Trade: 'Wichita's boom is largely
due to the fact that the city went to
work in the right way, by paying the
local papers to advertise it. The Bea-
con and Eagle receive regular adver-
Using rates for booming the town, and
ahe city buys up large numbers of each
issue for free distribution.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
NeW QnarterA.

City Clerk Ford has moved his Office
from Commercial street over Morris
drug store to No. u, East Sixth ave
nue., where he has had a large room
fitted up with fire and burglar proof
vault to keep money and papers in. The
Office is also very handsomely finished
being neatly wall papered and the
wood works stained and oiled. Mr..
Ford as grand recorder of the A. o. U.
W., has a great many valuable papers
and money on his hands. This to-
gether with the city clerks books and
papers demand strong safe place of
storage, where fire and burglars can't
get at them.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

A vEXING and unsettled question in
physiology is, why are not the walls of
stomach and intestine themselves di-
gested by their own fluids? Because
these tissues are living, was the answer
of John Hunter in 1872, but DIR. j. w.
Warren has just disproved this expla-
nation by digesting the legs of living
frogs in artificial gastric juice.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

WE are in receipt of letter of thanks
from Mr.. l.. II. Peuse, chaplain of the
Seaman's Home in New Orleans, Lou
isiana, for sending gratuitously copy
of THE NEWS to the Home, where he
assures us it is much appreciated, duly
filed and thoroughly read.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

CLEANLINESS is next to Goodness. -
Let us have a sewer system before the
new waterworks are in operation. The
extra amount of water which will be
used will more than repay the city for
the expense incurred.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
MarrInre Record.

Judge harrington issued the follow,
ing marriage licenses during the past
week:
Geo. 81. Biglow and Mary E. Lam.
bert, both of Americas.
William P. .Gilpin and Mary E
Roush, Both of Emporia.
James Patton and Catherine Gilmore
both of Emporia.
J. G. Odds of Rock creek and Mary
B. Romeo of Agnes City.
Mark Cook of Council Grove anC
Ruth Clark of Dunlap.
Granville L. Call and Clara B
Broughton, both of Emporia.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

JUDGE ANDREWS of the New York
supreme court has decided that mar
riage contracted While the bridegroom
is under the influence of liquor is void.
Ladies should be governed accordingly,
and not marry gentlemen when drunk,
or who propose to get drunk afterward.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

STRANGE, isn't it, how action can be
put into inanimate objects? A man on
the North Side made board walk yes
terday.-Ottawa Local News.
That's nothing. If you come to our
town you can see a mill race, and water
run, both caused by an obstruction
that dams everything that comes in the
UNIV
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

THE Newton Republican says the
distillery in that city will soon be run
ming again, a company having been or
gained with $4,000 paid up capital
for that purpose. Its capacity will be
$50 bushels per day.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

A MISSIONARY who has just returned
from Persia is lecturing in New York.
Among the queer customs of that land
he alludes to one which forbids lovers
kissing each other. How can a mis-
sionary make such people understand
ANYTHING about heayenp
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

IT is stated that one of Emporia's
capitalists recently paid 800 for Bible
at book sale. This is calculated to
strengthen the impression that the BIZ
bic is an exceedingly unique and rare
book at Emporia.-Champion.
Yes. and that it is appreciated, too.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

Thoroughly cleanse the blood, which is the
fountain of health, by using DR.. Pierce's Gold
en- Medical Discovery, and good digestion, q
fair skin. buoyant spirits, vital strength, and
sOundness of constitution will be established
Golden Medical Discovery cures all humors,
from the common pimple, blotch, or eruption,
TO the worst Scrofula, or blOOd-poison. E8-
Salt-rheum or letter, Fever-sores, Hip-join4
Disease, Scrofulous Sores and Swelings, En.
larged Glands and Eating Ulcers.
Golden Medical Discovery cures Congump.
ton (which is Scrofula OF the Lungal, BY 10
wondsrful blood1purifEing; inyig3ratings snd
ting of Blood, Shortnees of Breath. Bronchitis,
Severe coughs. Asthma. and kindred anec-
dons, it is a sovereign remedy. 1t promptly
cures the severest Coughs.
For Torpid Liver. Biliousnees, or I" Liver
Complaint" Dyspepsia, and Indigestion. it b
an unequalled remedy. Sold by druggists.
DIR. PUERCE,S PELLETS AnEIs
Bilious and Caihartfe.
&c q vial. by druggists.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

THE Coronado men who were arrested
some time ago for shooting their Leoti
neighbors, have been released from the
Ford county jail by filing bail in the
sum of SO, 900 each.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

AN Allen county school district, on
Arbor Day, fenced the five acres COM
posing the school grounds. ploughed it
up and filed it full of trees, rose bushes
and all sorts of shrubs. The day was
made holiday. The whole neighbor-
hood gathered, to the number of $50 or
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

KENTUCKY distillers are accused of
having supplied the money to enable
the democracy of Rhode Island to carry
that state, and the evidence appears to
; be indisputable. They objected to high
license or prohibition.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

The court room and stairway Of the
court house have been covered by new
rush carpets. Carl Miller, the janitor
did the work of putting them down and
he made good job OF it. He says he is
going to fire the first man that spits or
his new carpet.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

THE sewerage question should not
be forgotten. The hot days of summer
are near at hand, and the city is by no
means in a proper sanitary condition to
meet the dangers the dog days bring.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
ISCopCSbLu1Iys
j. u. w. BELL,

For the benefit of Mr.. Bell and others
we have interviewed Mayor Brewer on
this subject, and were informed by
him that the assertions made in the
above were essentially as stated, but
that work had been stopped and COM
mittee of the council instructed to ap-
point a man to superintendent the
work in the city's interest. The mayor
informed us that all the defects spoken
of above would have to be remedied,
and the ground relaid and rolled and
every bit of work done according to
contract
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

Thursday transfer was fled in tht
register of deeds Office deciding an un
dividing half of the town of Bushong
Lyon county, to G. E. Shepard and r
M. RisleY of Abilene for &c, 600.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

A WASHINGTON correspondent says
that the lady friends of Mrs. Cleveland
do not expect to see her out for some
time, but fails to give any reason there
for
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

L. Severy and wife returned last Fri,
day from Arkansas City, where they
have been visiting Mr.. and Mrs. C. l.
Severy.
w. P. Gould of Hartford, who has
just returned from California, called
at the NEWS Office Thursday. He says
that as soon as he can get his business
settled up here he will return to Cali
fornia for a short time.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1887.

The Apaches confined at Fort Mar
ion, Florida, are to be removed to
Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama.
Next they will be removed to Ari-
IONA,
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05
THE NEW RESERVOIRS.

The following communication is
handed us with a request to publish.
We comply with the request, and let
the communication speak for itself:
Editor DAILY news:
DEAR Sustaining to-day that
! there had been some exception taken
to what have said in relation to the
specification not being complied with in
building the reservoir, take this OPP
Portunity to apologize, as apparently
was mistaken. They have been COM
piled with in one particular and one
only.
The contractor has dug hole in the
ground the size required for reser-
voir. This is the only thing which had
been done as specified last Sunday.
And now let us see what he has done
beside. The specifications say that
side hill places under the bank shall be
terraced or stepped to offsets, leaving
planes slightly descending inwardt
The soil was deposited loosely on the
side hill without terracing. The
The banks to be carried up in uni
form layers of not exceeding six inches.
keeping the outside at all times from
four to six inches higher than the center.
The banks Sunday were three feet high
in some places, the highest in the CEN
ter, but irregular, as rule, and had
evidently been put there without re-
gard to layers, but anyway to get the
dirt in the bank. Each layer of six
inches was to be sprinkled and rolledS
There had been no provision made for
sprinkling, none had been done and not
a roller had touched the bank up to
that time. Now, these are plain re-
Quirements of the specifications under
which all bidders expected to
work, unless the exception should
be made of the successful
ones, apparently they did not expect to
or they would begin by doing so.
If they are allowed to build the bank
without sprinkling, they can save over
five hundred dollars, but the city viii
have it to pay all the same.
If they are allowed to build it with
out rolling Shey can save several hum
dred dollars more, but the city will
have to foot the bill for the full amount.
If they are allowed to put the dirt on
as it happens, without regard to layers,
they save several hundred dollars, but
the city pays the same. They would
have to if the work was done right.
And to sum up, if the work is al
lowed to go on as it has started and the
rest of it is done in the same loose way,
we will have some worthless reservoirs
and all the money put into them will
be thrown away.
1t stands us in hand to watch the
work as it progresses and see that we
get what we pay for.
We should have competent super
intendent on the ground all OF the
time and then watch him.
Respectfully,
j. j.. w. BELL.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

the Welsh Congregational Church. and
at $50 p. m. services win be conducted
at the Welsh PRESBYTERIAN Church.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

WE notice in the Farm and Fire
side, published at Springfield, O., two
column letter from Emporia, written by
Col. H. C. Whitley, which viii no doubt
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

Judge harrington issued marriage
license Thursday to Mack Cook, of
Council Grove, and Miss Ruth Clark, OF
Dunlap.
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

AN eastern exchange has the follow
ing: 1.-THE sheriff of Garfield county,
Colorado, furnishes this specimen of
western justice: When he returned to
the officers of Mesa county the writ
upon which one David Beach was to
have been arrested, he Endorsed the fol-
lowing upon it: 4 do hereby certify
that have executed the within writ
by killing the within David Beach He
seems to have executed the writ and
Mr.. Beach at the same time.''
The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-05-05

REAL estate sales in Wichita seem to
be steadily decreasing. Week before
last they were over 81 100, 600; last week
they were but 1924 ,O0O.-Exultant Elk
change.
Well, what would you have? If you
must make remarks about Wichita, tell
the whole story, i. g., that the real es-
tate boom has been converted into a
building boom. AS we have on several
occasions stated, Wichita's boom re-
fleets credit on the whole state of Kan
sas, and only an extremely narrow
minded Kansas editor will indulge in
unkind insinuations at her expense.
AS for Emporia, she has no jealous of
Wichita or any other town. The bigger
boom at Wichita, the bigger the boom
for Kansas, and we should be extreme
ly sorry to chronicle the fact that she
had reached the zenith of her pros
perity. But the fact is she can laugh
at all such little spiteful filings.